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Locked Up!

Three authors, one spent 40 years in Solitary at Angola Prison for a crime he didn't commit, the longest solitary confinement in U.S. History, another spent her career fighting to right the many wrongs in our penal system, the third a Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist. This is a do-not-miss panel.

A long-time advocate for the wrongly incarcerated, Lara Bazelon's new book is "Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction."
An associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, she is the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics....

Albert Woodfox spent 40 years in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit at Louisiana's infamous Angola prison -- this is the longest solitary confinement in American history. A committed activist while incarcerated, he remains so today, speaking to a wide array of audiences, including the Innocence Project, Harvard, Yale and other universities, the National Lawyers Guild, as well as at Amnesty International events in London, Paris, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium....